| | JULY 20224One of the most underrated startup ecosystems in the country, Odisha, is concocting a silent revolution with its startup initiative. Odisha Startup Hub (O-Hub) is Odisha's maiden, centralized Incubator, wholly owned and operated by the State Government. It is equipped with State-of-the-art, Plug-n-play infrastructure to facilitate Start-up Incubation. Services such as Mentorship, Investment Facilitation, Business Development, Co-working Space, Modular Manufacturing, and more, are provided through O-Hub at subsidized prices. Let's look at some numbers. To date, the program has created more than 1300 startups. While 93 of them are currently incubated, 21 of them are VC funded, and 140 of them are seed funded. In truth, Odisha, in the recent past, has witnessed a flow of investments beyond its startup ecosystem. A couple of months ago, Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik inaugurated three industrial projects and ground-breaking ten other projects involving a total investment of Rs.1,218 crore. The projects are spread across industries like food processing, tourism, paper/packaging, manufacturing, and polymers & plastic and are poised to create potential employment for over 3,390 persons in the state.Quite clearly, Odisha offers a lucrative opportunity for investors across all the sectors mentioned above. The state provides an excellent opportunity for aspirant entrepreneurs to realize their dream. Besides the quality and less cost of living the city offers, something that makes Odisha the next startup hub is its access to the best academia and talent, infrastructure, and connectivity. In this issue, we have come up with a bunch of entrepreneurial anecdotes that originated in the state.Do let us know your thoughts.Sujith VasudevanManaging Editoreditor@ceoinsightsindia.comA Silent Startup RevolutionEditorial Vol 04 · Issue 5 - 1 · JULY, 2022 Publisher Alok Chaturvedi Managing Editor Sujith Vasudevan Manager - DesignPrabhu Dutta A.R.N RayNoidaRohit Raghubanshi Garima Anandadvertise@ceoinsightsindia.comEditorial queries editor@ceoinsightsindia.comTo subscribeVisit www.ceoinsightsindia.com/subscribe/ or send emailto subscription@ceoinsightsindia.comCover price is Rs.150 per issue.Editor Alok ChaturvediPrinted and Published By Alok Chaturvedi on behalf of InfoConnect Web Technolo-gies India Pvt. Ltd., and Printed at Precision Fototype Services at Sri Sabari Shopping Complex, 24 Residency Road Bangalore-560025 and Published At No. 124, 2nd Floor, Surya Chambers, Old Airport Road, Murugeshpalya, Bangalore-560017.Copyright © 2022 InfoConnect Web Technologies India Pvt. Ltd., All rights reserved. Reproduction in whole or part of any text, photography or illustrations without written permission from the publisher is prohibited. The publisher assumes no responsibility for unsolicited manuscripts, photographs or illustrations. Views and opinions expressed in this publication are not necessarily those of the magazine and accordingly, no liability is assumed by the publisher. Design Girish M Aruna KumariVP - Sales & Marketing Amrit SinghCirculation Manager Magendran Perumal Editorial Ananth V Aveek Pal Chaudhuri Mandvi Singh Sthitaprajnya Panigrahi
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